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The same past data can confirm a theory and its exact opposite! If you survive until tomorrow, it could mean that either a) you are more likely to be immortal or b) that you are closer to death.

- Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes

If you cannot explain it simply, you do not understand it enough.

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Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.

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It isn’t more light we need, it isn’t more truth, and it isn’t more scientific data. It is more Christ, more courage, more spiritual insight to act on the light we have.

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When you see data, doubt [them]! When you see measurements, doubt them!

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Properly speaking, the unconscious is the real psychic; its inner nature is just as unknown to us as the reality of the external world, and it is just as imperfectly reported to us through the data of consciousness as is the external world through the indications of our sensory organs.